Topic: China Central Television
All Content
-
Global News Blog Dead pigs in Shanghai water supply don't ring alarm bells for Chinese officials
More than 2,800 pig carcasses were discovered in the Huangpu River, which feeds Shanghai taps. Rivers are apparently a popular repository for swine that die of disease.
-
Al Gore sued for selling Current TV to Al Jazeera
Al Gore sued because the man behind the $500 million deal to sell the liberal media outlet wasn't paid. John Terenzio wants to sue Al Gore for $5 million.
-
Doomsday crackdown: China arrests hundreds in Mayan apocalypse group (+video)
China swept up members of a fringe Christian group 'Eastern Lightning' for spreading rumors about the coming end of the world.
-
Mo Yan: Why the Swedish Academy awarded Mo Yan the Nobel Prize (+video)
Mo Yan s the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of China's government, but the Swedish Academy says that it did not take political considerations into account when selecting the popular novelist.
-
Tensions rise between China and Japan over disputed islands
Sporadic, violent protests against Japanese businesses broke out across China this weekend after the Japanese government announced that it had purchased from private Japanese owners islands that are claimed by China.
-
China reacts to Japan's plans to buy islands claimed by China and Taiwan
Japan says it will buy three uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. Beijing said it would not "sit back and watch its territorial sovereignty violated." The islands are part of what Japan calls the Senkakus, and China calls the Diaoyu group
-
Reinventing the city: An interview with architect Rem Koolhaas
'What I see more than anything is the inability of almost every political system to anticipate, mobilize, and take precautions for the future, even when it is obvious that cities will grow or shrink rapidly.' At the same time, 'The reinvention...of cities is taking place all over the world.'
-
Chinese food like you've never seen it before
A new Chinese food documentary series called 'A Bite of China' has broken all audience records in China. More than 100 million people have seen all seven episodes.
-
China's standoff with the Philippines heats up with travel warnings, oil drilling
Analysts say the oil-rich waters around Scarborough Shoal and the Paracels are but one factor in the increasingly prickly relations between China and the Philippines.
-
Opinion: Why Voice of America is losing to voice of communist China – at home and abroad
With funding and program cuts, Washington is crippling the truth-telling Voice of America broadcasts in China. Meanwhile, Beijing is aggressively expanding its media campaign to spread untruths – broadcasting from American soil. America can't afford to let the VOA go silent.
-
After China train crash, it's not just rail safety that worries Chinese
Last week's China train crash, which killed some 40 people, has reinforced a sense of unease with the pace of the nation's development.
-
Salt panic sparks in China from Japan radiation risk
Salt panic-buying sparks across China and other neighboring countries from fears of radioactive contamination.
-
China earthquake kills 24 and destroys over 1,000 buildings
China earthquake strikes in southwest border area with Burma (Myanmar). The China earthquake follows two earthquakes in Japan.
-
In wake of China landslides, 127 found dead but thousands still missing
The China landslides that occurred Sunday took the lives of at least 127 people, but the search is on for thousands still missing.
-
Three Gorges Dam flooding turns deadly; dozens missing in China
Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest. Heavy rains in recent days caused flood waters that pushed past the huge dam in China.
-
Rescuers battle roadblocks, high altitude to reach survivors in China earthquake
The death toll in China's earthquake topped 600 on Thursday, as rescue teams pulled 1,000 survivors from the rubble but struggled with the high altitude and lack of heavy equipment.
-
In Qinghai Province in China, earthquake kills hundreds and levels buildings
A China earthquake left at least 400 people dead and 10,000 injured, as rescue teams rushed to northwestern Qinghai Province.
-
Thailand government faces new pressure to ease Thai protests
After weeks of Thai protests calling for the government to resign, the country's military chief and electoral commission weighed in.
-
Urumqi unrest: China's savvier media strategy
Taking a cue from Western PR tactics, Beijing moved away from trying to block coverage altogether – and was benefited by doing so.
-
The Monitor's View: Why China's ethnic riots help the Communist Party
Official media depicted the country's dominant Han as victims, a useful unifier in a down economy.
-
Beijing launching a 'Chinese CNN' to burnish image abroad
But winning credibility as an objective news source will be a hurdle, experts say.
-
Opinion: Second thoughts on Beijing's new Olympic-inspired architecture
The new Beijing may not be best for China.
Become part of the Monitor community